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by dant 17y ago
I think the core argument here is that if the majority of the users don't understand the implementation details of the software/hardware they're using, then selling them new stuff might actually involve spelling out the benefits in practica
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by dant 17y ago
You have a contract directly with the borrowers, not with the institution. If the borrowers don't pay up, you loose that money. Zopa doesn't pretend that you have money sitting in a vault somewhere that you can take out whenever you like. T
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How to defend against zombie attack(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by dant 17y ago|1 comments
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by dant 17y ago
Birmingham, England
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by dant 17y ago
Good point. I think Microsoft have failed to spot that the computer market is going the same way as the car market. You can buy a car very cheaply if you just need to get from A to B. But people who have more money choose to buy BMWs or Mer
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by dant 17y ago
So what's your point? That the people who want a say in how they're governed shouldn't express a view because the people who don't like to have a say are sick of hearing it?
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by dant 17y ago
I don't think the argument is that "you're bad anyway". Regardless of who you are, how you got into that situation and whether the protesters have a point, with a protest movement that big and motivated your options are same: crush the prot
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by dant 17y ago
I agree. Facebook's data on me is not of a particularly good quality. Most of my "friends" are former colleagues or school friends. I wouldn't trust any of them to recommend a restarunt any more then I would trust 300 anonymous reviews on a
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Secrets of the [UK Football] Fixture Computer(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by dant 17y ago|0 comments
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by dant 17y ago
True. I'm not passing judgement or using subjective terms like "bad guys", I'm just saying that the OP highlights what a robust monopoly Google has and that the counter arguments that some have offered are wrong.
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by dant 17y ago
If true, this strengthens the case that Google's monopoly is dangerous. The defence of Google's market dominance has always been that users are not locked in to Google and would switch the moment something better arrived. If Google have bui
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by dant 17y ago
Give the guy a break, he clearly does now how to code, he writes well crafted blog entries in which he humbly explains some of the mistake's he's made for the benefit of others. If he's being voted up in news aggregator then a lot of people
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by dant 17y ago
"Smart" in this context means "engineering smart", sounds like they lacked some business smarts... There's more than one way to be smart.
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by dant 17y ago
It's all about network effects. I think the hype is bad for Twitter, it makes people aware of the service before any of their friends are on there, so they try it, subscribe to Stephen Fry and Jeff Atwood and then give up. Me and a few of m
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by dant 17y ago
I think pg has misjudged what stage of the start-up revolution we're in. He notes that the industrial revolution spread quickly because there were geographical areas with middle class populations and cultures that let people keep the large
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by dant 18y ago
The amount of wealth in the world is roughly the same, but the perceived value of cash has risen relative to everything else. The "wealth" has gone to the people who happen to be sitting on a lot of cash at the moment while people with lots
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by dant 18y ago
This looks kind of like Powershell, which I've been in awe of for several months now. But being built on a more dynamic runtime this will have the ability to use to extend objects that you get back from the shell so it could be even better.
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Negotiating with Customers(vnext.blogspot.com)
2 points by dant 18y ago|0 comments
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by dant 18y ago
I'm not surprise this is happening, I expect that it will happen more in future. Windows and IE may have only lost a few percentage points of market share over the past few years, but those few percentage points represent a generation of te
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by dant 18y ago
I didn't bail out anyone, sometimes more than one institution blows up which seems to give you a better chance of making it to the end before the recession catches you. Then I realised I was supposed to care about the stock market. Game Ove
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by dant 18y ago
I wasn't suggesting that evolution thinks, I was suggesting that we've evolved to produce more males so that there's an optimum 50/50 balance of the number of males and females at around early adulthood. Considering some of the other things
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by dant 18y ago
Consensus is clearly 66% or 50% depending on whether you think the GB and BG combinations are the same thing in the context of the question. But isn't it true that more boys than girls are born (because boys die younger so evolution tries t
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by dant 18y ago
You make it sound like that's a bad thing.
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by dant 18y ago
Wouldn't it be a good idea to silently hide the posts from everyone except the troll. Now he (or she) has been public outed he'll probably try again with a new set of accounts.
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Microsoft Kills Linq to SQL(ayende.com)
6 points by dant 18y ago|5 comments
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Haven't we seen this election before?(newsvote.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by dant 18y ago|0 comments
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by dant 18y ago
The same thing could happen with people, someone finds an old story but doesn't realise it's old, tells a few people, starts a rumour and then traders sell off stock. At least with an automated system you can improve the algorithms.
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by dant 18y ago
I'm a manager in an in-house corporate IT dept. Far from running scared from this kind of thing I'm constantly trying to get the rest of the business to except off the self software for all the little tools that they ask for so that we can
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Ask HN: What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot?
33 points by dant 18y ago|74 comments
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by dant 18y ago
I'd keep files but use tags instead of folders. I like powershell's object based cli, make sure nothing like the windows registry ever existed, the OS would only run byte code, memory would be transactional and grey would not be the default

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